About the Authors

Yu Ting Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Ting Wu, Tesfaye Wubet

Affiliations UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany, Chair of Soil Ecology, Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Tesfaye Wubet

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Ting Wu, Tesfaye Wubet

tesfaye.wubet@ufz.de

Affiliations UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany

Stefan Trogisch

Affiliations Faculty of Biology, Department of Geobotany, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Department of Biology and Geobotany, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Sabine Both

Affiliation Department of Biology and Geobotany, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

Thomas Scholten

Affiliation Chair of Physical Geography and Soil Science, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Helge Bruelheide

Affiliations Department of Biology and Geobotany, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany

François Buscot

Affiliations UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany, Chair of Soil Ecology, Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FB TW. Performed the experiments: YTW. Analyzed the data: TW YTW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FB TW. Wrote the paper: YTW TW FB. Contributed data on soil properties and analysis of the data: ST TS. Contributed vegetation data and analysis of the data: SB HB.